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BIOGRAPHY
Manuel Sutherland has a double major in Planning-Budgeting and Banking-Finance from the Central University of Venezuela (UCV). He specialises in Planning Instruments and Techniques at CENDES (Center for Development Studies) and has a MA in Industrial Engineering from the Universidad Experimental Politécnica Antonio José de Sucre (UNEXPO). He is currently a PhD candidate in Development Studies with CENDES at UCV. His thesis is a comparative study of progressivism’s evolution in Bolivia, Uruguay and Venezuela. Moreover, he worked at the Ministry of Labor and at the Ministry of Light Industries and Commerce (MILCO) as an assessor and consultant in industrial policy. He also worked at the Industrial Bank of Venezuela (BIV) and the Ministry of Planning and Development (MPPPD). Finally, he has been the founder and director of the Centro de Investigación y Formación Obrera (CIFO) since 2015. Manuel Sutherland has written about the economic crisis, oil rentierism, the socialist revolution, the collapse of extractivism in Venezuela and the ecological transition in Latin America.
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biography
Manuel Sutherland has a double major in Planning-Budgeting and Banking-Finance from the Central University of Venezuela (UCV). He specialises in Planning Instruments and Techniques at CENDES (Center for Development Studies) and has a MA in Industrial Engineering from the Universidad Experimental Politécnica Antonio José de Sucre (UNEXPO). He is currently a PhD candidate in Development Studies with CENDES at UCV. His thesis is a comparative study of progressivism’s evolution in Bolivia, Uruguay and Venezuela. Moreover, he worked at the Ministry of Labor and at the Ministry of Light Industries and Commerce (MILCO) as an assessor and consultant in industrial policy. He also worked at the Industrial Bank of Venezuela (BIV) and the Ministry of Planning and Development (MPPPD). Finally, he has been the founder and director of the Centro de Investigación y Formación Obrera (CIFO) since 2015. Manuel Sutherland has written about the economic crisis, oil rentierism, the socialist revolution, the collapse of extractivism in Venezuela and the ecological transition in Latin America.
CONTRIBUTION TO THE PROJECT
Manuel Sutherland brings to Extractivism.de extensive knowledge and empiric data about the economics and politics of Venezuela, an Latin American extractivist country par excellence. During his stay, Sutherland aims to grasp the current crisis of the rentier model in the country via qualitative and quantitative perspectives. Furthermore, by discussing the non-sustainability of the extractivist mining sector as an alternative to the deteriorating oil sector, he aims to stress the influence of the political actors within the politics of appropriation and distribution of the rents.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS (SELECTION)
Sutherland, Manuel, Bull, Benedicte, Rosales, Antulio. (2021). “Venezuela de la crisis económica al capitalismo elitista bodegonero.” Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. VIEW PUBLICATION
Sutherland, Manuel. (2020). “Identificación de trayectorias históricas, desafíos y oportunidades para la transformación de la matriz productiva en forma social y ambientalmente sostenible para Venezuela.” Los desafíos de la transformación productiva en América Latina. Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. VIEW PUBLICATION
Sutherland, Manuel. (2020). “Informe de Investigación especial (II): Las sanciones económicas contra Venezuela: consecuencias, crisis humanitaria, alternativas y acuerdo humanitario, para ONU y PROVEA.” 25th of may 2020. VIEW PUBLICATION
• Sutherland, Manuel (2016). “Progresismo o transición al socialismo? Apuntes de un análisis crítico del devenir económico Bolivariano” Transición, transformación y Rupturas. Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung. VIEW PUBLICATION